The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-23 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW, Nanning.— ...... 6 minutes after 21 Evening On the bit of May will be published, price 25. 6d., No. 111. of THE MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Principal Contributors— E. L. BULWER, Esq., M.P., Dr. LAklbtiElt, &C. &C. Principal Contents— Life and Writings of Scott. !Warming and Ventilating—Ar- Character and Speeches of Lord nott's and Joyce's Stoves. Brougham. Zicri, a Tale (conti nue d). The Irish Church. &e. &c. &c. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. The publication of Tux SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at I minutes past Three o' Clock. - . • ~%}~ ~~ 4 WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SU;" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1838. In another part of our Journal will be found a re turn of the Number of Newspaper Stamps issued the year before the reduction of the duty on Newspapers and issued since, which has been laid before the House of Commons, with a view to show, prior to the Budget being brought forward, the effects of the re duction.. We believe the return will scarcely justify the anticipations of the most zealous advocates of lowering thi duty, though it bears out fully the opinion of those who stated that the reduction from three-pence one-fifth of a penny to one penny, would cause a loss to the reve nue of one half. In the year ending September, 1836, the whole amount of the Stamp duty on Newspapers was, 443,2781., and ending September, 1837, 217,480/. The return embraces also the first half of the present year, and indicates a slight falling off as compared to 1837. This was perhaps to be expected, as the change natu rally tempted more persons to embark in the Newspaper trade at first Than could finally be successful. The increase in the number of Journals in 1837, was in London 14, English Provincial 43, in Scotch 11, being in each class an increase of about one-fifth ; the greatest comparative increase being, by a trifle, in the English Provincial Journals, one-half of which increase, however, seems to have been suppressed in the pre sent year. The number of Irish Journals has dimi nished since the reduction by no less than 16, or nearly one-fourth, though the number of stamps issued on the whole to Irish Journals, increased a very littl e in the year 1837, and indicates no falling off in the present year. But it must be recollected that the reduction of the stamp duty on them was about lid. only, it having been 2d. formerly, and being at pre sent id. The increase in the number of stamps.in 1837 was for London, and for Scotch Journals rather more, and on English provincial journals rather less, than one half on the number issued in 1836. Thus the alteration has tended considerably more to increase the circulation of journals previously existing, which has augmented one-half, than to call new ones into existence, which have inereased in the proportion of only one-fifth. The number of London and of Scotch Journals is slightly increased in the first half of the present year, while the number of English provincial Journals is considerably diminished, as compared to 1837. It is therefore to be inferred that it is onl♦ in the provincial towns of England where the demand for Newspapers has been overrated, and where the progress of intelligence is less rapid than was anticipated. It must be remembered that in 1836 the excitement caused by the Reform Act was not wholly passed away, and that in 1837 and 1838 the political world has been remarkably dull ; nor have there been any events of commanding interest to give an impulse to the circu lation of Newspapers. On the whole, therefore, the returns may be considered as affording another proof that to reduce taxes greatly promotes consump tion. We may on this ground recommend to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wholly to abolish the Stamp duties both on newspapers and on advertisements. The sum obtained by the Exchequer from those two sources is trifling, and though it would then get nothing directly from news papers, the great increase of general business which the increase in their circulation would cause, would prevent the revenue suffering much by the total abolition of the Stamp-duty. The high and proper ground, however, on which to place our advocacy of the total abolition is that newspapers are the means of diffusing intelligence, and that the wealth and happi ness of the community will be at all times propor tionate to the sum of intelligence existing among the people. Flow much that would be augmented by the abolition of the stamp duties, we cannot tell, but we may affirm, that the increase of newspaper circula tion consequent on the reduction of taxation, is an index to the immense mass of business in every branch of human life, which is suppressed, stifled, and anni hilated by taxation. The reduction of the tax has done much to promote the circulation of newspapers ; the abolition of it would do more ; and there does not exist a single other tax of which it may not also be said, that the reduction and abolition of it would, in like manner, and to some similar degree, promote the use and consumption of the articles on which it is levied, and greatly increase the mass of business and of enjoyment. The Herald of Saturday informs us that the price of corn is already rising abroad : " In consequence of vast purchases by English corn mer chants ; and the reason assigned for these purchases, is, the expected_ eff ec t of Colonel Seal e ' s Bill i n open i ng the British Market to the introduction of Foreign grain." The fact of the rise of prices abroad is, we believe, correct, and though the purchases of our merchants may have caused that rise, we are induced to attribute them, in part at least, to a more provident foresight than the expectation that Colonel SEALE'S Bill would be come law. Our merchants know the influence of the landlords in the House of Peers too well to speculate on the chance of their passing that measure. Their purchases are made in relation, we believe, to a much more interesting, and for the half-starved people of England, a fearful anticipation. The store of corn on the Continent is by no means large. An absolute dearth is already said to have made itself felt in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The season has commenced here most inauspiciously. All the provincial newspapers received in town within the last few days speak in the most gloomy terms of the cold and wet weather. It has long ago been ob served that a cold, wet Spring, is, in England, the sure forerunner of a greatly deficient harvest. To a knowledge of all these circumstances we attribute the reported purchases of our merchants ; and their provident conduct, which is precisely what we should recommend, will probably be rewarded by a corresponding gain. We hope that they will in good time—and they have ample means —cram every granary in the country, under the custom-house lock, with in spite o f t h e C orn- l aws, corn, so that our people, may be saved from famine. So determined are the unblushing advocates of that unrighteous scheme, to enrich the landlords, by stinting the people of food, to uphold it, that they object to Colonel SEALE s Bill, that it may enable our ship-owners to victual their vessels at a cheaper rate, and so compete with theyshippi, r nations. The selfish landlords down Great Britain's commer- 6 P *You in cE strike " i. r~ L . -'R cial marine, and her maritime greatness, rathei than allow our seamen to eat biscuit ind beer which has paid no rent to th e The present aspect of the seasons, hoWeVer, makes us look forward with hope cot the speedy termination of the starvation law. Hi therto it has been preserved by being only impercep tibly operative. Favourable seasons, the improvement of steam navigation, the cultivation of Ireland, the extension of agriculture in Scotland, have of late years kept prices tolerably low ; but.as soon as our po pulation grows up to these increased means of produc tion—which is probably now the case—as soon as there is an approxi;nation to a scarcity, the starving effect of the lat.- - / will be apparent ; and before prices reach the - point at which the farmer would be remunerated for his past losses, the law will be swept away. One deficient harvest, accompanied by slackness of trade, a scantiness of money, an aversion to speculation, a want of employment, and considerable distress, with plenty of food in the granaries of London, Hull, and Liver pool, would render it impossible to enforce the law. The people would probably, and no reasoning could convince them that they ought not, forcibly set the law aside. The duties could not be exacted. It would not be under such circumstances a question whether the law could he upheld, but whether the whole Legislature and Government might not be de stroyed from the unrighteous attempt to deprive the people of food in order to enrich the landowners. It would be seen, by an article in The Sun of Friday, that the Court of Common Council have at last adopted a reformed constitution for the City of London, which is to be submitted to her MAJESTY'S Ministers for their approbation. We have used the word " reformed" out of courtesy to the municipal body, for we can find nothing in the proposed change to which that term can fairly and properly apply. But what was to be expected but a lenient sentence from a Corporation sitting in judgment upon itself ? A sur geon will slash and hack away in a thorough-going, style upon another man's limbs ; but it is quite a diffe rent thing when he has to operate upon himself—the knife is then handled with wonderful delicacy. Some of the most obvious improvements, such as an equal division of the wards and uniformity in the constituency, are evaded, under the modest pretext that the Court should have the power to make those alterations itself. 'Why should the Court have such a power ? Why should this Corporation be dealt with in a different manner from others which have been reformed ? We sincerely hope that the extra vagant pretensions put forward by the Court of Com mon Council will not be listened to for a moment, and that the reformed constitution of the City will be based upon the Report of the Committee which sat so long upon this subject, which Report was, it must be remembered, approved by the Court in the mayoralty of Alderman COPELAND. The Court then voted, and on solid grounds, that the Aldermen should be elected for seven years ; but how altered is its present tone ! Now we are told with oracular solemnity that " it is indispensable for the due administration of justice that the aldermen should be elected for life, and be and continue justices of the peace subject to removal on bankruptcy, insolvency by deed of composition, or taking the benefit of the Insolvent Act, conviction of fraud or other misdemea nour by the verdict of a jury, and neglect of duty for six months." We wish the Court of Common Council had stated the reasons why the due administration of justice requires that the aldermen should be chosen for life. It appears, from the disqualifications proposed, that the Court does not hold the doctrine of indelible ordination in the case of justices. Once a justice always a justice, is no maxim of the Court of Common Council. Where then would be the harm if an alderman laying down his office at the end of seven years, should also cease to act as a justice of peace, until the good opinion of his fellow-citizens should restore him to civic honour ? How, we ask, could this suspension of a dignity which it is not denied is entirely an e.r Qfficio one, operate against a due administration of justice ? Would there be a justice of peace the fewer were the septennial plan adopted ? Not one. It seems to us that the Court was sadly at a loss for an argument in favour of granting aldermen leases for life, when it could find no better one than this silly subterfuge about the administration of justice. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all been received. The debate on the Five per Cents. Interest Reduction Bill was brought to a close on Friday at the request of the President of the Council, who begged that the further consideration of the question might be postponed till the health of the Finance Alinister would permit him to explain his views upon the subject. This is a curious, as well as most unexpected termination of a debate of four days' continuance. From the conduct of the Ministers with regard to this measure it was generally believed in Paris on Friday evening, that they were favourable to the project recommended by the Com mittee, but that the KING had laid his commands upon them not to support it. Had it been their wish to .oppose the reduction, they had many opportunities for SO doing ; but wh en p resse d by M. DUCHATEL to declare themselves for or against the measure, they held back with the obvious of leaving the majority of the Chamber to take both the merit and the responsi bility of its decision upon itself. Had the question been put to the vote on Friday, the Committee would have triumphed. We shall now see the account to which the KING, who is violently to the reduction, ,will turn the time allowed him by the very opportune illness of the Finance Minister. The following are extracts from the Paris Journals bf Friday and Saturday:— I. " A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 3th instant, which e find in the Constitutionnel, informs us that the Czar, ou earning the def ca t o f t h e E gypt i ans in. Syria, has charg e d ount Orloff, the negotiator o f th e treaty of Unkiar Ske essi, with a mi ss i on t o t h e P orte ; an d t h at th i s d i plomatist is nstructed to frust ra t e , a t C onstant i nop l e, t h e conc ili atory ad nces of Engla n d an d F rance. M ars h a l P a k ew i tsc h , i nstea d l returning to W arsaw , i s to go i nto B essara bi a to i nspect e southern a r m y, an d G enera l Baron Toll goes w i t h him. he writer add s , b ut w hi ch we do not believe, that every body St. Peter s b urg h i s prepared for a war in the East. . " The s u it e o f M arshal Soult, who is appointed specially to present the Ki ng o f the French at the coronation of her ajesty Q ueen Vi ctoria, is to be composed of M. D'Eyragucs, ecretary of th e F rench Embassy at Constantinople, and hose marri age w i t h Mademoiselle Morell, the prosecutrix of . de la Ronci ere i n t h e very mysterious affair which about our years since occ u pi e d pu b lic attention, we lately mentioned ; . . de Bassano, son o f t h e D uke de Bassano (Maret), Secre tary of Legation at B russe l s ; M . de Valencay, grand nephew of Prince Talleyrand ; M. de Vicence ; M. de Champla treux, a deputy, and son-in-law of Count Mole (President of the Council, and Minister for Foreign Affairs); and M. de Praslin. The Marquis de Dalmatia, the son, and Count Jules de Mornay, tbo son-in-law, of Marshal Soult, will also accompany him, but without being officially avached to his embassy. The following is an enumeration of the names and rates of French frigates actually in commission, with their stations, taken from an official document just published by order of the Minister of Marine :—Minerve, 58, Brazil ; Iphigenie, 60, Hayti ; Terpsichore, 60, Brest; Herminie, 60, Gulf of Mexico ; Didon, 60, on a private mission ; Venus, 52, protec tion of whale-fishery and commerce ; Artemise, 52, on a voyage in the Indian and Chinese Seas ; Andromede, 52, South Sea ; Nereide, 52, Hayti ; Medee, 46, Lisbon ; Her mione, 46, Spanish coast ; Astree, 46, the Antilles; Ama zone, 46, Brest ; Armide, 46, Toulon ; Thetis, 46, Toulon ; Junon, 46, Brest. A letter from Saragossa of the 11th instant, in the Phare, says--" The Carlista who had invaded Upper Arragon, on the side of Huesca, have suffered heavy losses from the effects of the Queen's troops ; they have been dispersed, and may be picked up on all the roads. One battalion, still incomplete, saved itself with much difficulty, for, in trying, in its retreat, to cross the bridge of Anzaniga, which was guarded by two companies and some national guards, it was repulsed twice successively. It was only the third time that, charging at the point of the bayonet, it succeeded in crossing the bridge, after considerable loss. All the country is under arms, and more than 500 prisoners have been taken. The Carlists lost THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 23, is3B all their Moral courage when they saw that they could not pass the Cinca, and they are now convinced they at make nb more expeditions into Upper Arlagon without greater forces:'' PRENtH, F _ Petit s 21 , itri. per Cents., 108 . itnr ott. 10,1. riii . e..•per.Cents., 80£ 70e. 65c. 50e. 60c, Bank Actions, 2,700 f. gente de Naples, 100 f. sc. 10c. Roman Five perCerkte, 1 , 3 1.02 A 10, Patish Belgian Loan, 105. Belgian Bank, 1,445 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 21 t4i. Haytian Loan. 480 f. 231.etianti ots LoNhoN. nr.E. Month, paper, 25f. ; money, 25e. 50C. Pcree months, paper, 25f. 37 4c. ; money, :251. 00s. LAST PRICES. }'ti per Cents. 1081. sc. Three per Cents., 80f. 65c. Bank Actions, 2,700 f. Romans, 103. Belgian Bank, 1,415 f, Fl,y , ian Loan, 4Sof. Spanish Actives, 20%. MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET CITY (THIS DAY), TIVELYE O'CLOCK. Accounts have been received at Madrid from General Par. divas, stating that a ßasilio was retreating, having abandoned his artillery and baggage, and that Negri, who had evacuated Segovia, was retreating in good order. Generally on Mondays we have numerous arrivals from all quarters of the globe, which is not the case this morning, there being very fow, and the New York packet of the Ist inst., which is anxiously looked for. by the American mer chahts, still remains due. _ . We are sorry to observe, by the accounts from Liverpool this morning, that the trade at Manchester and other manu. facturing towns is in a ♦ery dull state, and that there is a reduction in the various prices of goods. FUNDS. Consols continue in the same - inanimate state as they were on Saturday, with the only difference that they are for money not quite so good as they closed on the above day at 931 i, at present might be quoted at 93} i for the Account, M oney 93i. Exchequer Bills, 67 prem. Bank Stock, 2054. India Bonds, 8 prem. In the Foreign market the only price we hear is that of Spanish Active, 204 to 204 with Coupons. Portuguese, 324 33. Three per Cents., 22 to 4. Mexican, 274 to i. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 534 to 544. PRICES OF STOCKS 'THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ......... 3 per Cent. ite.i 3 per Cent. Cons... • 1% par Cent,.........._........ Old Annnities .... ..... . ,.. -.. 9Th Ditto Red.......... 10 0 1,%4!4 New Ditto ...... ..................... New 3% per Ceut 1004% 3 yer Cent. Annuities, 1751._ New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, ..£1,004........... 67 69 unri Bank LoneAnnultiestoexpire Ditto ..............500 67 69 pm. -Jan. 5, 1860 l5 1-161 Ditto Small Oct. 19. 1859.... Jan. 5, 1860 154 Ditto Advertised.. ....... ... —pm Jan. 5, 1680 ........ .......... Bank Stock for Acc0unt........ April a, 1881 — India Stock for Acc0unt......... Jan, 5, 1870. .......... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austran Bonds Hely . an Bonds 10334 I Ditto Account ...... ........ ... Ditto Account . Portuguese Bonds — Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account .325000 Buenos Ayres Bonds — atto, 3 per cent.... ......... .. 22 Ditto Account ..... ...... ~ — Ditto Account.... 22421% Chilliari 80nd5...-. ...... ...... Prussian Bonds — Ditto Account ... ...... ....... i Russian Bonds, 1822 — C.numbian 80nd5................. I Ditto Account — Ditto Account, ... .......... .. Ditto Metallic. — Cilumbian Bonds, 1824. — Spanish Bonds — 1)1:to Account Danich Bonds ...... . — Ditto Bonds, MA • 2ofini Ditto Account ... — Ditto Ac:onnt 20%34% Greek 80nd5................ ...... French, 5 per cent__ . —t —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — --- 4 per cent.. _f —c. Ditto Account — 3 pc: cant.. Mexican Bon4s, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Ditto Account ..... ....... ..... Dutch, 2% per cent 54 Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account — Ditto, - per cent lio 1 , 98 i N eapoliun.... ........... . ..... ...... Ditto Account lOO PLACES OF SHARES THI DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. __ Per Share. British Iron Company 5O 144 14 Rea Idel Monte Mining Co., Registereci 63/. 104.6 d. Ditto Unregistered _.. 14 1 4 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayrshire Railway ...... i r :at Western Railway Company.-- ........... Hull and Selby Railway Company l5 12 54 ::righton Railway Company London and Hlackwall Railway 1. ndon and Birmingham Railway Company go 172 1 2 Ditto 14 Shares 5 304 1 London and Southampton (New) R a il way 5 27 •anchester and Leeds Railway Company Asphalte, Claridge's Patent l4 13% 14 Do British ll 3% Do. London Bitumen I 27i 31% Bastenne and Gaujac Bitumen London and Westmin s te r B an k 2O 21 London Joint Stock Bank 7 7 Jai Mexican and South Am= rican 5 6 National Cognac Brandy Distillery Company Provincial Eink of Ireland ~......,. ........... 25 42 Van Diemanis Land Agricultural Company l7 12 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 21. 9 per Cent. Consols 9 2 ,i Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 91% 94 per Cent. Stock 99441 Ditto,. 4 per cent ..... 61% Ditto Reduced 99 l 4lHibm man Bank Ditto New, 1830 3E, per Cent. Debentures - Bank Stock - Royal Canal Stock - Ballast Office Debentures,4 per Grand Canal Stock ...... - cent...... ...... ..... HALF--PAST 02 , 1 E. Up to the present hour we have no accounts of the arrival of the New York packet of the Ist inst. We have a very great dearth of intelligence in the City, in consequence of which no speculations of any consequence have been done during the morning either in the British or Foreign Markets. Shares appear to be the favourite operation at present, and great fear is entertained that many of the speculators will in these hazardous concerns suffer great losses. Consols may be quoted at 9314 Money, Account 93i Exchequer Bills, 67 69 prem. ; India Bonds, 75 76 ; Bank Stock, 2054 4 ; India Stock, 2701. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 20! l with Cou pons ; Portuguese, 321 ; Three per Cents. 211 ; Brazilian, 76i ; Belgian, ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 54i. A fair business is doing in Shares. Bastenne, 31 prem. ; Clardgies, 12 prem. ; London and Birmingham risen to 82 prem. ; Great Western, 28 prem. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 93i i• THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock . ........... ............205 li Omni= -.. 3 per Cent. IQ. 9214 India Stock 2 7 00,4 3 per Cent. Cons. 93% Ditto Ronde U. per Cent. 3Ss i per Cent. Red 100)4 Ditto Old Annuities New I% per Cent 101% Ditto New APllUltier. -••• 4 per Cent. Assented — Ex. Bill,, 10001....... 2% d. ... 69 pm Dissented ..... Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001•••••••••""""" 69 pm Jas. 1860 ..• l5 1-16 Bank Stock for Opg. - Oct 1830 lndia Stock for Act. ...... ...... Jan. 1860 1 5 14 Consols for Act. PO/tr.:ION FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Selgi . an, 5 per cent-. ..... - 11°837k),432.% Br , zilian Bonds .. 70% Prussian, 5 per cent. - 7tienos Ayres, 6 per cent •— Russian Bones. 5 per cent _ Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic ... ............. 5 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent. Ditto, 1821 _ Danish, 3 per cent Ditto nds ' ' French, 5 poi cent ... ...... —•. 25 .. Greek Bonds, 1;7 , 1:3,5 per cent. Exchange ................. ... —1 -- Mexican, 5 per cent IMto. 6 per cent., 1823 Peruvian. 182.5. 6 ner cent CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. (THIS DAY.) Bristol and Exeter Railway Eastern Counties Railway 5% Glasgow, Paislev, and Ayrshire lialway Gre t NI. estern Railway 93% hull and Selby 91 Loudon and I;righton Railway 6% London and Blackwall Railway . 173 London and Birmingham Railway 31 Ditto Qu irte r Shares Condon and Southampton (New) 1 ,1 London Grand Junction Railway 34 5 % Manchester and Leeds Railway Manchester and Dirminghath Railway 12!,i York aria North Midland Railway RAILWAY M E E TING AT PENRITH.—A nume rous meeting of the P enr ith R a il wa y Committee w_ W. was held on Thursday, th e 19th i nstan t, at t h e G eo rge Inn, E. IA Hesell, the proposed Mr. Locke, an d rece i v i ng hi s op i n ion on Esq. in the ch a i r , f or t h e purpose o f having an interview with Cli burn line by Penrith. Mr. L. expressed himself highly f a . vourable to the line, the section of which was produced by Mr. Larmer; and he proceeded southward the same day to view and report thereon, which will be done forthwith. We understand that it is in contemplation to have the levels more accurately taken between Carlisle and Penrith, the traffic in coal, lime, stone, slate, &c., having increased so much of late as to place it beyond doubt that, if even a railway between those two towns were completed, it would be a source of great and certain revenue to subscribers. , Carlisle Journal. DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss Or THREE LIVES. —Yesterday morning, at five o'clock, a fire, which, we regret to say, was attended with the loss of three lives, was disco vered in Paradise-place, Lo wer - roa d , Islington, at the reai r.CdocHkiging, a fi rewor k maker, by Police Constable gins, 161, of the N di v i s i on , b y w h om every exertion was instantly ma d e to save the lives of the in mates. Having . brok en open the front door and rescued, eae Harris, e of 112, an 31 unhurt, Mrs. Cocking and her daughter, they again rushed into the house, but in attempting to ascend the stairs a second time, the flooring gave way, and they narrowly escaped with their lives. By this time many persons in the neighbour hood were aware of the awful scene, to which they hastened to render assistance. Ladders were immediately procured, and raised to the bed. room windows, and Mr. Cocking, who was all but dead, and dreadfully burnt, was brought out and taken forthwith to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. After this many attempts were made to save the other inmates of the house, which, however, were unsuccessful, as the fire was spreading rapidly, and the smoke arising more particularly from the explosions of the fireworks about the building, drove the officers back as they approached the windows, and the proba bility is, that the unfortunate sufferers were suffocated in their sleep, as they made no effort to save themselves. They were sons of Mr. Cocking, and of the ag es of 17, 19, and 34, the latter of whom was an idiot. The remains of the victims to the awful conflagration were found about seven o'clock, and the vaults of Islington conveyed to Church, where they will remain until the Coroner has instituted an inquiry into the melancholy catastrophe. The house, which was not insured, stood alone in a garden. The country papers received on Satu r d ay represent the state of the weather in the provinces to be extremely severe and ungenial. Hail and thunder storms have in some places done much damage. ELECTRICITY.—WiIy 19 the fire-side an unsafe place in a thunder-storm ?—Because the carbonaceous matter or soot, with which the chimney is lined, acts as a conductor for the lightning. Why is the middle of an apartment the safest place during a thunder-storm ?—Because, should a flash oflightning strike a building, or enter it at any of the windows, it will take its direction along the walls, without injuring the centre of the room. CHANCERY COURT,-(THIS DAY.) The Loan eitArTogLLoß took original causes to-day. BECKHAM V. CRUTWEI.L. The bill in this case was filed by the plaintiff, who is the devisee of certain real estates under the will of a gentleman tif the naMe of Richard Bouchier, and the otsjeet of the snit Was to obtain the direetidn of the b:ourt exonerating his estates trom certain mortgages, And td _ ihroW them upon the testator's per so nal estate. The plaintiff, Mr, Charles Currie Beckham, was the devisee, and also one of the etecutors of the late Mr. Bouchier, and the defendants Wcre the twO otlitr etetutors, and the general devisePs and re siduary legatees of the testator's real and personal estate. The testator, by his will, gave certain portions of his real estate to the plaintiff, and the remainder to his general devisees and residuary legatees, and the short facts out of which the present suit arose, were the following:—Mr. Bouchier who had a great deal of property about Bath, engaged largely in build ing speculations. In 1807, he was engaged in the building or houses upon a place called Norfolk-cresent, in Bath. For the purpose of effecting the building in question he employed a person of the name of Orchard, and what the plaintiff re presented to have taken place was this :—Mr. Bouchier em ployed Orchard as chief superintendent in building the houses, and the course he took was to convey the ground upon which the houses were to be built to Orchard, reserving to himself the fee farm rent. Mr. Bouchier was to find the money, and Or • chard was to superintend the erections, and when the houses were built they were to be sold, subject to the fee farm rent, and the profits of that sale were to be equally divided among them. The buildings were erected, but it being found impos sible to sell them, Orchard mortgaged them to the Archdea con of Wells for 2,0001., and it was that mortgage that was the subject of the present suit. (The case was proceeding when our reporter left, and ap pears likely to occupy the whole day.) ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Master of the Rolls on coming into Court this morning, gave the following judgments : WOOD V. WHITE. The bill in this case was filed by the vendor against the Purchaser of an estate, for the specific performance of the agreement. The purchaser, the defendant, objected that the plaintiff could not make a good title to the estate. John Wood by his will, dated May 2, 1816, after giving a portion of his real estate and his households goods to his wife forlife,and charging an annuity of 5001. for her benefit on the rest of his real estate, bequeathed all his real and freehold estate, subject to the in terest he had given to his wife, to his children, in certain por tions. The testator died in 1820, leaving his wife and five children surviving him. The wife died in 1127, and it was contended that the shares given the children could only be sold under the powers given by the will, and that those powers could be exercised only during the life-time of the widox. It did not appear the trusts were continuing as the testator in-. tended th em to cont i nue, and h i s Lordship was of opi nion the power to sell was at an end by determination of the trusts. Such being his opinion, it was not necessary to consider the other important question that was raised as to the validity of the rr,wer, on the supposition that the trusts were continuing. Under these circumstances, the plaintiffs were not entitled to the specific performance of the agreement, and the bill must be dismissed with costs. FERARD V. GRIFFIN. The object of this suit was to ascertain who were entitled to a sum of 10,000/., Three per Cent. Annuities, set apart to answer an annuity of aooi., given by the will of the testator in the cause, dated November, 1175. His LORDSHIP was of opinion, on the true construction of the will, that the plaintiff was entitled to the 10,000/. VI CE - CHANdERY.-(iHIS DAY.) THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE V. BALowiN. This case stood over from Saturday to to-day, for the pur pose of giving the defendants an opportunity of considering INhether they would undertake to pay the amount that was now due to the Society for the use by them of the steel plates of certain maps. The case came before the Court upon an application on behalf of the Society for an injunc tion to restrain the defendants from publishing certain maps on their own account, which they had agreed to print and publish for the Society of Useful Knowledge. The Court, after hearing the arguments on Saturday, refused to grant the injunction, and Mr. Knight Bruce then applied for a reference to the Master to take the account. On the part of the defend ant it was contended that such it reference was unneces sary, inasmuch as the matter might be settled between the parties. Mr. Knight Bruce insisted on his right to the reference, but stated that he would not prosecute the order for a fortnight, if the defendants would undertake to pay what was due for the rent of the plates. The defendant objected to this, on the ground that should a fiat be taken out in the mean time against Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock, they would be made personally liable for the amount. Tho subject was then ordered to stand over till this morn ing, in order to afford the defendants an opportunity of considering whether they would give the undertaking or not, and upon his Honour taking his seat to-day, Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE wished to know from Mr. Wigram, what course his clients determined to adopt. Mr. WIGRA.M said that he had a proposition to make, that he trusted would supersede the necessity of a reference. Ho should propose that the defendants submitting to such order as the Oourt should think right, the Court should ogler the de fendant to pay the sum of 1,9711. the amount claimed by Mr. Jackson, in respect of the rent of the plates, without prejudice. Mr. KNIGHT BRCCE—Then am I to understand that you will undertake to pay that amount? Mr. WlGRAM—Certainly. It is now in Court, and can be handed over to your side immediately, if you will give a receipt for it. Mr. KNIGHT BercE—And you do not intend to move to dissolve the order ? Mr. WlGRAH—Certainly not. The VICE- CHANCELLOR—Perhaps the better course will be to order the payment of a round sum —say 2,0001. Mr. WICIRAM—If your Honour pleases. Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE—The 2,0001. is to be paid on account of the rent of the plates now due, without prejudice to the question of the amount due. Mr. Wtoadtm— Yes. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—WeII, I think that is very reason able, and it is creditable to all parties who are concerned in a Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, for nothing shows the absence of useful knowledge so much as a long liti gation about nothing.--(Laughter.) The COURT then proceeded to hear motions, but nothing of public importance came before the Court previous to our re porter leaving. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) LIBF.L—MERRICK V. BARLEY, ESQ., M.P. Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW was instructed on behalf of the plaintiff in this case to move for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should not be set aside and a new trial had. It was an action for libel brought by Mr. Merrick, a re spectable medical practitioner, carrying on business in Here fordshire, in which place he had been appointed by the sanc tion of three monthly contracts to attend the poor of a con siderable Union, against Mr. Wakley, for a publication in the Lancet, of which be is the editor and proprietor, reflecting upon the plaintiff's character. The action was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson at the last Hereford Assizes, and a ver dict was had for the plaintiff, with one farthing damages. He was aware that he could not ask their Lordships to consent to the application on the ground of the smallness of the damages; but unfortunately from what had taken place at the trial, and subsequently, it was absolutely necessary, he might say, to the existence of the party whom he represented, to make the present application. The principal ground upon which he moved was that the verdict had been against the fair result of the evidence ; and when their Lord ships were aware that evidence had been called upon both sides, they would feel the difficulty in which he was placed, more especially as the Learned Judge before whom the case was tried had certified on the record, from which it might be presumed that he was satisfied with the finding of the Jury. On Saturday last another article, which was likely seriously to injure the plaintiff's character as a medical prac titioner, had appeared in the Lancet, which stated further that Mr. Baron Alderson having certified, therefore depriving the plaintiff of his costs, they (the Editor) wished him joy of the farthing damages he had obtained, as he would be required to pay 1501. to the sapient laver who had advised the prose cution. Lord DENSIAN—Do you bring this before us on affidavits? Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW—No, my Lord. Lord DENMAN—And is it true that Baron Alderson has certified? Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW—Yes, my Lord, and I thought it right to mention the fact to your Lordships. The Learned Counsel here proceeded to read the libel, which was published in the Lanc't of the 18th of November, and was headed Effects of the Medical Contract system—a case of Strangu lated Hernia left to nature," and then went on to juatify the treatment the plaintiff had resorted to, as had been proved by the w itnesses. Lord DENMAN thought it would be very difficult to interfere if there had been nothing objectionable in the evidence ten. dered at the trial. If anything material had been admitted which might have lowered the verdict, the Court was bound to hear the arguments of Counsel upon that point. Mr. Sergeant LunLow said there were two pieces of evi dence omitted which he thought would materially affect the case of his client, and which a new trial would afford him an opportunity of bringing before the Jury. After some further argument, The Comr said they would consult the Learned Judge who had tried the case, and mention the matter at a future day. Judgment deferred. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWTON V. HARLAND AND ANOTHER. This was an action for an illegal seizure under a distress for rent. It was tried at the York assizes in July last, before Mr. Baron Parke. A verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages 4.5/, on the first count, which set forth that sum as the full value, and alleged the illegal seizure. The other counts, seven or eight in number, alleged various irregularities in the procedings of the defendants ; but they were not gone into at the trial, and upon application in Michaelmas Term, Mr. Baron Boliand di rected a verdict to be entered for the defendants on those counts, and costs to the amount of 351. were allowed to them thereon, being within 101. of the damages recovered, the plaintiff having also to pay his own costs. Mr. WATSON this day moved for a rule to amend the taxation, and submitted to the Court that the , general rule of Court under which the taxing officer acted, o‘,uld not have intended to give a. defendant costs as against the pl dutifr, upon the immaterial counts, when a full verdict was given upon the principal count. He did not find fault with the rule, in so far as it deprived a plaintiff of his own costs ps against the defendant, upon such parts of his decla ration. The Conaf Iri , ss of opinion that it would be a great hardship upon a defendant not to be reimbursed for his costs upon im material counts, even thotigh a verclidt were given against him on the principgl count.—Rule refused. QYFL MODE OF I'M:Yid As ES'T'ATE.—DEALES V. 13VLE3. In this case Mr. Sergeant WVLDE applied for a rule to com pel the appeargnee of certain parties under the folltiWinE 7.trange circumstances. Upon an affi,:avit professng to be made by Ictt_7l clerks to an attorney, who denies all knowledge of the transaction, ejectments were served upon the defendant and other occupiers of property in the county of Suffolk, and pos session taken in the name of the plaintiffs, who immediately set about to pull down the houses. The persons appearing as deponents to the affidavit could not be found, not being known at the places set forth as their residences. Neither could the plaintiffs (the alleged lessors) be found, and the person who appeared as attorney for them, was not in the profession at all. The CHIEF JUSTICE thought it was a case for another Court. Mr. Justice CoLTsticsr said he had tried two similar cases lately at the Old Bailey, and the parties were transported for life. Mr. Sergeant WILDE said the object 9f his application was to put a stop to the demolition of the property. The CHIEF JUSTICE —Take a rule, and bring all the priies here. Perhaps we may deal with them in a summary manner. The case looks like one of great fraud. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAtts.) After taking somemotions of course, his Lordship proceeded to take trials before a common Jury. GIBBON v. RANDAL. This action wan brought to recover damages for a breach of the articles of a covenant of apprenticeship on the part of the defendant, to whom the plaintiff had been bound, but a corn• promise was effected between the parties. This was an action of asault. CHESTER V. LAMB. Mr. ALEXANDER in stating the case for the plaintiff, said Mr. Chester was an attorney at Great Nlissenden, Bucks, and in the month of January last had arranged to go by coach to some place and had taken the seat on the box. The defend ant, who also wished to go by the same coach, desired him to got down and let him hare that seat, and on plaintiff's declining the defendant proceeded roughly and with abusive language to pull him off, and failing in that, he pushed him upon the roof of the coach. Witnesses were called who deposed to these facts, and they were subjected to a very amusing cross-examination by Mr. Thesiger, counsel for the defendant, but their evidence in the main was not shaken. Mr. Tl►Es►uEk then addressed the jury in a most humourous speech for the defence, throwing ridicule on the whole pro ceeding, urging that such a frivolous case ought never to oc cupy the attention of a jury, and trusting that though the plaintiff, being himself in the profession of the law, was here " killing his own mutton," he should not be allowed to kill this Lamb.—( Laughter.) The Jury found—Damages One Farthing. EXCHEQUER COURT.-.(THIS DAY PREECE V. VIALTZRS. Mr. EVANS moved to set aside the verdict for the defend ant which had been returned in this case. It was an action for trespass, and was tried at the late Carmarthen Assizes, before Mr. Justice Coltman. It appeared that the plaintiff had been in possession of a close upwards of thirty years, and that he had built a house upon it. In 1836 he had three cows in the field, which the defendant caused to be taken out and driven to the parish pound. The defence set up was, that the close in question formed part of a larger farm, which was held upon a lease of lives ; that the last life in the lease fell in in 1836, and that the then tenant of the farm, who bore the same name as the defendant, renewed the lease and underlet the close to the defendant, and for the pur pose of proving that statement they called Mr. Walters, the tenant of the farm. Upon the part of the plaintiff, he (Mr. E.) objected to the competency of the witness, inasmuch as he came there to prove his own tenantcy and that by his evidence he might obtain his rent. The COURT over-ruled the objection, on the ground that the vei diet in this case could not be used by the witness in an action of ejectment, and that the only question in the case was the amount of damages in which he was not interested. Mr. EVANS had another objection. He objected that the lease at the trial did not come out of the proper custody. Tke evidence was given by Mr. Walters, and he said when the lease expired in May, 1826, he went to the office of Messrs. Williams and Jones, where he surrendered it, and got a re newal from Mr. Williams, but there was no evidence to con nect him with the original lessor, Jennings. The COURT inquired whether it was not shown that \IV il hams received rent during the subsistence of the lease. Mr. EVANS said such evidence had certainly been given. The COURT held that to be enough, and refused the rule. DEAIPSTER V. RODNIAN. This action was tried before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE at the late Liverpool Assizes, when a verdict was found for the plain tiff. The plaintiffs bought a certain quantity of teak timber, to be delivered in the river at Sierra Leone. In the agree ment there was a clause directing that all defective timber should be valued by two surveyors, one to be appointed by each party, and that the defendant might take the timber, if not pleased with the valuation. Upon the landing of the timber complaints were made of a part of it, and valuers ap pointed ; but in the meantime 1,000/. of the purchase money was paid. The valuers appointed an umpire, and made their award for 144/. less than the 1,000/, ; and for that sum the action was brought. He contended that the award was bad, as they had not the power of appointing an umpire, and that they had gone on wrong principles by valuing the timber as it lay in Liverpool in place of as it was at Sierra Leone. Besides it appeared from the letters put in evidence by themselves, that they had refused to give the timber to the defendant, and therefore were not in a position to maintain an action for money had and received.—Rule granted. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) A juvenile thief, named John Eddington, was charged by James Gathie, a shopman to the prosecutor, with the follow ing impudent robbery : It appeared that about six o'clock on Saturday evening the prisoner walked into the shop of Mr. John Spooner, cheese monger, 5, Pickett-street, Strand, and after selecting a Stil ton cheese produced, weighing 141 b., as if to purchase, ran out of the shop through several courts, pursued by a number of persons, who, after much difficulty, conducted him back to the shop, with the cheese in his possession. After declaring his innocence, Mr. FARRANT, a county Ma gistrate, ordered him to be fully committed for trial. A matronly looking woman, named Sarah Owen, was charged by John Roche, a shoemaker, who stated that he met her at four o'clock yesterday morning in Drury-lane, and took her to a public-house to have some drink. While sitting in the shop he laid the shoes produced, tied in a handkerchief by his side, and as he fell into conversation with another man, the prisoner concealed them under her cloak and left the shop. On his way home he was agreeably surprised to find the prisoner in the custody of a policeman in the seven Dials, about to be taken to the station.house, as she could not give a proper account of the articles in her possession. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she was drunk, and wns unconscious of having committed the offence. She was ordered to be sent for a month to the House of Correction. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK. (THIS DAY.) FEMALE PICKPOCKETS.—This morning nearly the whole of the charges were against females, who were charged with loitering about the Borough, with intent to pick pockets ; amongst whom was Bridget Toomey, who is well known to the police as a most abandoned character. Police-constable M 155, stated that ha raw the prisoner, with several more bad characters, in the High-street, and de sired her to move on, which, however, she refused to do, and began using the most violent and obscene language, and he then took her into custody. Alderman KELLY (to the prisoner)--What have you got to say to this ? Prisoner—Why, all I have got to say is, that things are come to a pretty pass now, and a person can't go along the streets, without being insulted by these fellows-- they always " pinch" (apprehend) me first. Inspector Corstorphon—She is one of the most depraved characters on the beat, your Worship. She has been in cus tody thirty-five times --twenty times on charges of felony, and for which she had been convicted. Alderman KELLY (to the prisoner)— You will not be easy until you are transported. You must go for a month for this offence. " -- Prisoner (to the Offieer)—l'll knock your head off when I come back, you bumble-headed— She was proceeding in a very violent manner when she was locked up. This morning Alderman K.lly presided as Magistrate for the first time at the Town-hall, a s , accor di ng to the charter, no Aldermen are qualified to sit as Magistrates for the Borough of Southwark until they have passed the civic chair. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE CATIDDLIcs.—A letter from Bonn, of the 10th instant, announces that the ecclesiastics in the Rheno-Prussian Pro vinces, whose powers of curs anitnariunt were generally renewed every five years by the Bishop, have refused to accept a renewal of those powers from M. Husgen, the Vicar-General, who at present acts for the Arch. bishop of Cologne. The circumstance has caused great consternation and great excitement amongst te Catho lics, who can no longer confess themselves; for the priest will not receive their confession, and of course leaves them unab solved of their sins. This it said is working the glory of God to the detriment of the Government, and it is signifi cantly asked how long the Government is to submit to these revolutionary manoeuvre s ? It is a singular fact that within the space of three hours on Tuesday morning we had hail, snow, thunder, light ning, wind, rain, and sunshine.—Maidstone Paper. A GOOD SHOT.-011 Tuesday last, a gentlema n , residing at Burton-on -Trent, killed a hare from the shoulder without rest, at the distance of 260 measured yards, a strong side-wind blowing at the time.—Birmingham Advertiser. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE• On Saturday evening, the celebrated Comedy of the HYP° crite, which has delighted the British public for upwards of ' century, was performed at this house, Mr. Harley makinhi's first appearance for the season, in the character of Mawwnr m ' The Hypocrite was first brought out at the Haymarket, imme diately after the accession of George 1., under the title of th e Nonjuror, and obtained for its author, Colley Cibber, the favourable notice of the Court, counterbalanced ht the then formidable enmity of Mr Mist, the Editor 01 the Weekly Journal. Cibber borrowed the idea of the N onjurot, as he frankly owns in the Apology for his Life, from the TarlufPe of Moliere, and the comedy a s 0 004 1011 Y written had a strong political tendency. The original' Cantsfell was not a Puritan, but a disguised Catholic priest, who by his artifices had led his patron, Sir John Lam bert, to join the Jacobites in favour of the Pretender. Th e play was altered by Isaac Bickerstaff, who added the cha racter of Mawworm as a satire upon the outrageous P no T' tensions to Divine inspiration set up by the ignora nt prAtcher?, who attempted the revival of Puritanism in England about the middle of the last century- Fe " ' of our English comedies are more worthy to keep possession of the stage. While it satirizes, wish a severity never sur passed, the meekly-urged pretensions of the sleek Hypocrit, ai,cl the ridiculous zeal of the ignorant, self-sufficient fanatic, it is careful to exalt rather than depreciate the character o f ra tional piety. With the performance of the Hypocrite on S"; - turday evening we cannot say that we were much gra tifien• Mr. Bartley took the part of Dr. Cantwell, and so far Inis- took the character as to affect the manners of a formal, unedtfr fated, vulgar-looking Methodist. The hypocrite stood conic!! in eves word, and gesture. Mr. Harley as Mawworm o ver i d e his part ; he 'was wanting in earnestness, and appeaked t Le personification or broad farce. It was not Mawworm fanatic, but Harley the comedian, that called forth "It' laughter of the House. Mr , Vining, as Colonel Lam titer was more thon respectable; and Miss Taylor, as Charhl. 4 was arch, graceful, and natural. The farce of High 4/ below Stairs followed, the principal characters being tanned by Mr. Harley, Mr. Vining, Mrs. Humby, Vinton Clifford, and Mrs. Griffith. Mr. Harley and Mr. kept the house in good humour, and the curtai n fell anil loud cheers. The house was not so well filled as , it tottaill was before the raster holydays. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. : and M There was during last week a moderate arrival of both G" - a Flour, and no briskness was apparent in the trade for any article, ' l , n _„ Prices remained as an the previous Monday, This morning the fr 1" supply of every description of Corn was again moderate, an d the but manifested very little disposition to purchase with freedom. Wh_eoi has met a slow sale, but the last week's prices have been "it, supported, and not much is left over. Barley for malting maintAine6,.o former value, for other purposes there is not much demand. I" lo I / and Pease have sold at their late prices. Sales of Oats have bee n 1 qty effected, and their former rates have been obtained. The male" c h, factors are anxious to quit their stocks of Flour to avoid the aPp l l ,,o , lug effect of the hot weather, but they ars not inclined to "I'e prices, therefore they have to meet a difficult trade. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. .g. 36( Wheat, Red (old) sss 625. Beans, Small (new) ............ ~ : - . 46. --- White (old) 60s. 68s. - Red 1837) 46s. 50s. - Tick (new) ............ , .: gs. Fine Ms. 58s. Superfine 60s. 635. - Harrow (new) ......... :T',o§. - White (1837) 46s. 555. Fine sBs 625. Brank .. ..... "'...5. -- Superfine 645. 665. Oats Feed 'oos -Foreign free `rts. 70s. Rye Barley OOB. 345. - Oats, Feed ................................. --111'.'2--;:i. .2s. v 9 s . New ............. 2 0 s. op - Grinding 25s 275. --- Potatee .................... 261•01. Malting 3os. 345. Malt 465. Ms. - Scotch ......... ...................... .224;00: - Fine New 565. 603. - Irish .... 17s. ...... gt4'ssf, Pease, Grey, New 308. 31s. Flour Town (per sack) ....... 5 4 0 5 1 4 4 *p - Maple New . 325. 235. --- seconds .................. ..,: 440 - White "15s, 355. -- North Country ..••••' 4 r ie.. - Boilers 375. 38s. Bran EOr. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST %,, . Wneat. Barley. oats. 1 M . 4. 7 1 7, r 0 1,1 ' Ergnsh ... ........ ... 5,593 qrs. 6,277 qrs. 6,655 qrs. 5, " Irish - ---- 4,189 ...-- Foreign , - - 85 ........, S 0. to The quotations of best Lincoln and Durham Oxen were ore 4s. 6d. ; coarse and ordinary, 3s. Bd. to 4s. The finest Oxen 0 .10 quoted at 4s. 6d. to 41. dd. ; Hutton, according to quality , from ss. ; Veal 5.. 6d. to bs. 10d.; Dairy fed Pork ss. ss. 2d. Beasts 2709-Sheep 23,210-Pigs 287-Calves 82. d• Beef 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton 45. to ss. ; Veal 41. 1 0 d , to 50. Pork 46. 2d. to ss. 2d. ; Lamb 61. to 71. CITY FISH MARKET. ro od TOP Good Fish not very plentiful; common Fish abundant . t.'" to 50. hot ss. to 21s. ; Soles 9d. to 31. per pair; Lobsters, good, 2s. i s p Salmon, good, is. per lb. ; Mackerel, good, 6d. each ; com mon IS prices. Trade generally brisk. PROVISION MARKET. ' th e Dulness continues to s market , and limit their transactions pervade to bare thi want ; prices generally of all kinds We' : same as last week when we went to press. BERMONDSEY WATER SIDE POTATOE MAR": I ;t, Tee supplies to-day of most descriptions were rather abun.3;:ntiful. otherwise. Trade dull owing to the vegetables being m ore P; c *" Prices when we went to press were declining. The qu otations give tomorrow. HOP AND SEED MARKET. I. Full previous prices are readily paid for Hops, and the " Ms . n t cl ion i' S steady. Red Clover Seed rather lower again. Other descrP without variation. TALLOW MARKET. for But little doing to-day in P.Y.C. and prices are reduced to 49g• for delivery price is 455. For the last two or three days the bu sineo delivery has been rather considerable. COLONIAL MARKETS. To-day we have no public sales whatever, and by private f ont ( nothing doing. The Imports are light again. We have not much 10' ; ness advertised for the week. A little Coffee is the chief Novelty in O s business. For to-morrow we have by public sale 1,04 i baskets .110 Sugar; '2,800 bags of Bengal, duty paid; 33 casks 43 brls. B. P. Co Ipo new crop; and 48 bags East India ; 480 bags Malabar Pepper; and 1 chests Havannah Sugar. • SALE AY. sale o The attendance at the saIe INDIGO as w not THIS conside D rable to-day, and th e progressed more heavy than on Friday; prices unaltered , rangier fre §d, to Vd per lb. lower than the prices of last sale. SALE (TIS DAY). This sale progresses, TEA and shows no new feature today, fora its Ond dition of Friday last. Green Tea is 3d. to 4d. lower than la st sale, g Black 2d. to 3d. generally. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, Apart O. from the We h a fair supply o f Wheat at s day's market growers, ad as well:as good coasting arrivals, thi and the whole Met • free : of at the rates of last Saturday ; indeed in some instances an advan c been Is. per quarter was realised. The arrivals of Barley have °g ain Pi Oari "' gre w moderate this week, and late prices are fully maintained. large supply, and sold slowly at our quotations. Malt con rirnie %on• ceedingly dull, and to effect sales to any extent lower rates m ils ' b • e bouC mitted to. In Rye little doing. Beans and Peas remain wit t oro change. For Flour the demand is limited, and prices are the cheaper. Old. New. o 0 Wheat, Northumberland Mi. 64s —4 ' --- s Norfolk awl Ji, rto i r s7s. Wis....—. —4. +-. -- Berwick and Scotch ----- Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Sullolk ....."--- :::: —Foreign —s. --s — 4 . -"''''' Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk_ 28s 33s Grinding and Feeding 23s. 2 s. Malt, Norfolk and Stitliilk s2s 565. —". .. " Beans, Small Tick — B, _s. 345. ov'' Pease, White 3ss 40s. . ... —'. --'__.: Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 23s. 25s —4. —s -?. Feed s -- 4 ` Foreign -s. —5....... -- • Flour wer sack) 43 s . 46 ; — 4 . —4. CORN MARE, Aram 20. na Our Corn Market DEßßY to-day was very small ; fresh Wheat 31 d 30' lto made last week' s p r i ces. Fi ne Wh eat, 58s. to 62; ; fi ne 13300 , 345. ; Grinding ditto, 2.65. to 28s. ; Beans, 325. to 365, • The General Steam Navigation Company's ' l/114. ' Packet, Giraffe, arrived at the Tower this day. On Wednesday, as two boys were drir''ng a Cr ll ) Rutland -stre e t, the animal b ecom i ng unru l y , made 1" to into St. George's girls' school, and dexterously ma na g e w ere walk up ninet een s t a i rs i nto t h e school-room. There 'es nearly 100 little girls in the room, whose screams and s he made the cow more unru l y and vicious; but fortunately sfeer did not injure any one of them, although she dodged then' „ c nearly three-qu ar t ers o f a h our. The animal was w ith r r ' - ibs difficulty finally induced to descend the stairs, and relea se little flock from their terrors. —Derby Reporter. f A letter from Lill e ment i ons t h e di sco very e ° t be series of crimes whi c h h ave occurre d i n consequen ce ° in discontinuance of the t ours f or th e recept i on o f foundling e a most of the towns of Belgium. A woman who was crol3l°Lr by one of the nurses a t T ournay , an d w h o engage d for a e - t bet tain sum to carry ov er th e f ront i er to t h e H osp i ce a t Oil ba s foundling children which the nurse intrusted to he r ' the been in the habit of throwing the poor children int ° tbe ir common sewers, and ab an d on i ng th em i n p l aces where ;- ur lives were endangered, t o save h erse lf t h e trou bl e o f hers r ed ney. Within two yea rs twenty-five children have disaPP t e- od in this way, and the r ema i ns o f some o f t h em h ave been nc)- it t. in the public privies of Tournay. The woman has bee° rested. —French Paper. e As a marriage party, of th ree ga ll ant pairs, ie r :. processing from the Salt Work s b y t h e Li me kil ns , at Cbaros ton, on Friday last, to meet the m i n i ster , a l a d k e pt LIP he stant gun-firing over their dashi ng h ea d s . I n the h ur * l froto had overcharged the shot, so th a t t h e p i ece was wrested was his grasp, and struck the earth. Fortunately no inju r y °n' done to any of the party. Sur e ly some l ess dangerous a e " - p i a te stration might be substituted f or thi s b ar b arous cus tom, t° - the happiest on earth !—Scottish Pilot. an SCOTT'S LOVE OF LABOUR. His kind -h, skilful physicians, Drs. Abercromby and Ross, of Edi nb leci had over and over p reac h e d the same doctrine, and ass-r uld him, that if he per s i s t e d i n working his brain nothing c-- s e , prevent his malady f rom recurring, ere long, in redoubledelly verity. He answered, " As for bidding me not work , rdj d o nt might as well p u t t h e k ett l e on t h e fire and say, S ow ' 'rni' boil.' " To myself, w h en I ven t ure d t o a dd ress him in as' lar strain, he replied, " I understand you, and I thank from my heart, but 1 must tell you at once how it is witl! I ern not sure pointtht am quite myself in all things, but sure that in one p there is no change ; I mean that I tu i , see distinctly that if I were to be idle I should go ma d ' comparison to that death is no risk to shrink from•" TORY FLIGHTS OF FANCY.---A paper effect itself the Downpatrick Recorder tells a story, to the euc ro , bear ar:' that the Lord Lieutenant, influenced by a memorial, forged signatures, had commuted a sentence of ten y e ___ e d transportation pronounced by Baron Joy on a person ha m s . Murray, convicted of burglary and robbery, to fourteen bac k imprisonment ; and that the said Murray was on his waY. y V i n e ti I n , t ) . r i o f m org th e e ry h i u n ik t . he m T ,i h t e te ß n eco T rd h e e r r , e h n o e w v -e e v r e w r, a w s ' a as n th a 1 ° - a mitigation of punishment in the case, and Murray is n sated on board the trausport.—Pilot. the only ow o for